Romeo And Juliet Literary Analysis

Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, is not a love story. In a love story, a couple fall in deep love, everyone is happy for them, and they live happily ever after. This does not happen in Romeo and Juliet. In Romeo and Juliet, a very small number of people are happy for the two lovers. Most people don’t even know about their relationship, and for a good reason. If anyone found out about their relationship, then something pretty devastating would happen to Romeo and Juliet because they are on opposite sides of a long standing family feud. In the end, Romeo and Juliet don’t live happily ever after, they kill themselves because they realize that their love is inevitably doomed. When the corpses of the lovers are found, Lord Montague and

That is the only happy ending in the story, because the “lovers” don’t get their happy ending. Shakespeare didn’t just make a bad love story, he did this for a reason, he wanted to make a point. So if this isn’t a happy love story, this must be a story about mistaken love. William Shakespeare uses contrasting imagery and metaphors to prove a point about mistaken love in the play. Romeo and Juliet uses night and day as contrasting imagery to show a sense of mystery/darkness that portrays Romeo and Juliet’s love. Romeo and Juliet can’t see each other during the day because that is when everyone is out and about, and somebody would notice that they were together. This causes Romeo to see Juliet as his light in the darkness, his bright sun that washes away the moon. “It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she” (II, ii, 4-7). What Romeo is really trying to say here is that he doesn’t care what time it is, because Juliet is his source of light that is bright enough to destroy the darkness, or in this case, the moon. The darkness of the night hides the love

Romeo and Juliet barely even know each other. In their first big love scene, Juliet can just barely recognize Romeo’s voice, which makes sense because they’ve only known about each other for a couple of hours. The point is that they both only like each other for their looks. In fact, Juliet makes it clear that Romeo is so handsome that anyone could gaze upon his face and immediately fall in love when she says, “Give me my Romeo. And when I shall die, Take him and cut him out into little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with the night And pay no attention to the garish sun.” (III, ii, 21-25). Apparently, Juliet believes that if Romeo were cut up into little stars and put into the sky, the world would fall in love with his looks. Juliet isn’t the only one at fault, though. Romeo talks about Juliet like she is a literal angel; a belief he shares when he cries, “O, speak again, bright angel! For thou art As glorious to this night, being o’er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white, upturnèd, wondering eyes Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him When he bestrides the lazy-puffing clouds And sails upon the bosom of the air” (II, ii, 26-32). Juliet can barely get the words “Ay me!” (II, ii, between 25-26) out before Romeo goes onto a big speech about how she’s the most beautiful creature